January

Back to school, back to cooking. And we certainly cooked up a storm.

Strawberry spinach salad with balsamic dressing

Meatloaf, green beans, and baked potatoes

Burrito

Grilled cheese with turkey

Roasted Red Pepper soup

Lasagna soup

Chicken wings with broccoli

We did a few things when we weren't cooking. Like playing with the rugby ball and walking around Congaree National Park and going to Concord Mills.

Tackle!

December 2011

Since I have been really bad about blogging the past 5 months, I thought it was about time to catch up and reminisce on what has happened this past semester. I'll start with December.

After coming back to the states, I spent a few days in Columbia looking at apartments. This of course led to catching up with friends.

Building a tower of drinks

Of course its fine to throw Lisa's shoe in a tree

Takosushi! Our Friday afternoon spot during the CORE.

After a trip to Columbia it was off to Pennsylvania for Christmas with Mike's family. But on the way up we had to make a few stops.

First, we went to DC to visit the PSI headquarters and our favorite monuments.

Einstein Memorial- decorated for Christmas

Washington Monument

FDR

The new Martin Luther King Memorial

Stopping for coffee at Bourbon (a Rwandan coffee shop) and meeting Renee's sister!

The next stop was the Hershey Chocolate Factory which has become a tradition for us.

House made of chocolate

roof detail- large hershey kisses and hershey bars

It was Hanukkah while we were in PA- lighting the menorah

Mike and his family went all out with decorating the house

After Christmas we made our way back to NC to see my family and celebrate Hanukkah.

Strawberry spinach salad

Trying to put together the electric menorah

Lighting the candles

The whole family together in one place!

Latkes!

Of course we had to cook dinner for the family: "Mikey chicken,"green beans, and cornbread stuffing

Then it was off to visit our friends' lake house to ring in the new year and head back to SC to go back to school.